213. The monster is out of the nest
Lockhart himself made a stupid mistake, he didn't think that the things he bought needed Loki's personal contact to be able to cast spells, the most important thing was that Loki was extremely smart, he couldn't take the initiative to touch those dangerous things, this idea made Lockhart fall into trouble for a while.
There is a spread book in front of him, he wants to record something on it, after all, it is a piece of heart given to him by his fans, and he doesn't dislike this book cheaply.
His pen poked and poked in the notebook, and Lockhart blamed himself for his recklessness in his heart, Loki didn't have any trouble with him recently, but this didn't stop Lockhart's own brain from making up for whether Loki was saving up a big move. Because the last time he was elf, Lockhart was afraid to enter the classroom with those dangerous things, but he could still show off in other ways, such as simulating some of the storylines mentioned in his book in class.
Lockhart originally wanted to ask Loki to come up and help him during Slytherin class, but God didn't do what people wanted, whenever he was about to call Loki by his name, Slytherin, who had always been selfish, would have someone willing to be this teaching assistant. This is extremely abnormal in Lockhart's perception of Slytherin, they don't have this so-called dedication, so Lockhart thinks that this is all instigated by Loki, or threatened, he has seen through his own thoughts, after all, he can use the Dementor lightly, maybe he has been hit several times before he knew it.
If Loki or anyone in the Lestrade family knew what Lockhart was thinking, they would have thought that Gilderoy Lockhart was a victim paranoia.
Lockhart thought of another way, he was a professor, and if he forcibly asked Loki to come and help, Loki would have no way to refuse, and at that time he could curse Loki with the items he bought.
Lockhart thought that he could do this, and when he came back to his senses and looked down to write, he found that the quill was dry, but strangely there was no trace left on the notebook at all.
He took the notebook and studied it carefully, he hadn't paid attention to it before, it looked very old, and on the first page there was a name, Tom Riddle, the name was somewhat familiar and unfamiliar, but Lockhart couldn't remember who this person was for a while. This book is very strange.,There should be some black magic on it.,Otherwise, it wouldn't have appeared in Bogin.γ
Lockhart re-dipped the quill in ink, and then re-wrote a paragraph in the notebook.
The words didn't stay in the notebook for too long, and they flickered and disappeared.
But when all these boring stupid things disappeared, there was no other change, and Lockhart wondered if this book was just for venting his resentment, or for writing some unknown secrets?
But what does this have to do with the dark arts, Lockhart is a little unclear.
But there's a name on it, Tom Riddle, maybe he should have his name on it too? Lockhart thought it was stupid, but he wrote in his notebook, "I'm Gilderoy Lockhart." β
The words were gone again, but this time the mysterious notebook finally responded.
The words seemed to come to Lockhart's ink, "Hello, Gilderoy Lockhart, I'm Tom Riddle, how did you get my day?" β
Lockhart realized in hindsight that it was a diary, pondered for a moment and wrote in his notebook, "I got it at Borgin's shop, and he gave him to me as a fan as a fan of mine." β
Once the handwriting disappeared, it was seen that new handwriting appeared in the diary again.
"Looks like you're a great man, Mr. Lockhart."
Lockhart thinks this interesting diary is still very good at talking, and he is indeed a great man, isn't he?
"I do have some ability, but I'm a humble person, so I won't talk to you about it."
"Actually, I'd love to be a listener, and if you can tell me anything about the great Mr. Lockhart, I'm the tightest mouthed man."
The diary says to Lockhart that he needs someone, someone who can be used by him and at his disposal, and now he has met this stupid-looking Gilderoy Lockhart.
But there was another problem, he needed to determine the current time.
"It's presumptuous, but can I ask, what year is it?"
Lockhart didn't realize why the diary asked such strange questions, he didn't even wonder why a diary could have such an autonomous conversation, perhaps he had attributed the strangeness of the diary to the effects of black magic.
"In 2009."
The diary then fell into deep thought like a human, and after a short time it emerged with the words, "Great Mr. Lockhart, the hour is late, for the sake of your health I propose that you can rest now." β
Lockhart looked at the time, it was indeed time to sleep, he still had class tomorrow, maybe tomorrow he could talk to this diary about the problems that had been bothering him, how to get revenge on Loki.
When the lights in the room were turned off, the diary flashed a different light, there was a soul in the diary, from Tom Riddle's soul, this diary was able to reply to messages on its own is not black magic, there is no black magic that can think like a human being. And the name of this soul may be a little difficult for Lockhart to remember, after all, they all remember his other name - Voldemort.
Lockhart didn't know what he had provoked, who he had provoked, and by the time he found out later, he couldn't escape.
Although Lockhart has nothing to do with Loki now, Loki has two brothers, Harry and Thor, and the two of them, especially Harry, have not had a good time recently, because Lockhart has started that set of marketing for himself again. He needed someone to cooperate with every day in his classroom, and Gryffindor was often chosen by either Harry or Thor, or the poor victim would just cycle among them.
Poor Thor and Harry really didn't have a fair reason to refuse their professor who was making trouble for them, but they still had to endure it anyway, and who told Loki that it was Harry himself who first discussed with Loki how to get revenge on Lockhart.
However, Harry did not regret playing Lockhart with Loki.
Lockhart, who was confused and somewhat arrogant, had begun to talk to his diary about what he was distressing about, hoping to get revenge on Loki, and even better if he could make his name worse.
Tom Riddle asked about Loki very seriously, and what he told Lockhart was that the curse of black magic would be easy to find if he used the object, and he needed to know how powerful Loki really was, so that he could see if there was any suitable magic to deal with him.
So, under Tom's coaxing, Lockhart talks about the pranks Loki had used on him, and what he had heard about Loki from the other professors.
"He can use Soul Confinition, and he can even break my Occlumency. I've heard from other professors that even the hardest Transfiguration Spell Loki can do it perfectly every time. He can do anything for him with the Slytherin students, and he rules all of Slytherin with his magic. β
Lockhart exaggerated things a lot, he didn't know that the mood of the soul in the diary had changed drastically, and the name Rocky Odinson was firmly engraved in the depths of his soul. He had identified Loki as a threat, and in Tom's mind, Loki had become his invisible rival, and if Lockhart hadn't brought Loki down, then ...... When he sees the light of day again, he will personally take Rocky Odinson's life.
"Then why didn't Headmaster Dumbledore stop it?"
Tom continued to induce Lockhart, he needed Lockhart to be able to sell his life, and he needed to know what Dumbledore was thinking.
Lockhart also seemed to complain about Dumbledore, and his pen paused for a long time before writing in his notebook, "Dumbledore is old, and I have reminded him about Rocky Odinson, but Professor Dumbledore doesn't care much about it, he always thinks that Rocky Odinson is a good boy." β
Whine?! That's good, if he's already complaining about Dumbledore's leadership, it's probably not impossible to tempt him down the wrong path.
"Maybe Professor Dumbledore is really old, Mr. Lockhart, I agree with you, dangerous people like Loki Odinson need to be monitored so that they don't bring more danger to the wizarding world."
Tom Riddle was talking nonsense with his eyes open, and although he didn't think so in his soul, he knew that Lockhart would love to hear it.
Because Gilderoy Lockhart needs a sense of identity.
"Actually, I have a way to not only make you a hero of Hogwarts, but also to get revenge on Loki for protecting the wizarding world from his threats."
The biggest threat to the wizarding world used to be called Voldemort, and some people called him the Dark Lord, but now everyone shuddered and said that his name was not to be called, and this biggest threat also had a name that many people have forgotten, "Tom Riddle." β
"What's the solution?"
Lockhart had been successfully seduced, and he didn't know that from this moment on, he would be further and further down the road of no return.
"I don't know if this news is right for you, after all, it's very difficult to control."
The diary looked a little talkative, as if he wanted to stop Lockhart, but this kind of desire actually made Lockhart a fool.
"You can sue me, I command you to sue me."
Lockhart's heart has always been about himself as the owner of the diary, after all, this diary was given to him by Bogin, and whoever he used to be, it is now his.
The soul in the diary had never heard such a command, and it flashed a different light, and then a passage appeared in the notebook, like a story.
"There's a secret room in Hogwarts. This chamber is a secret room of Mr. Salazar Slytherin, the founder of the legendary Slytherin House, and is said to contain a creature that can threaten wizards. It's Salazar Slytherin's pet, his own vault for his guardians, and he's also hugely lethal and will only listen to the person he summoned, and I think he's very useful to you. And if I'm not mistaken, it's still alive, in the hidden secret rooms of Hogwarts. β
Tom deceived Lockhart that the monster was not following the orders of the man who summoned him, but the orders of the real Slytherin descendants, but as a small price to pay for using Lockhart, Tom was still willing to tell SΓΉ Lockhart how to summon the monster.
Of course, it's just a summoning, not a control.
Lockhart had fallen for Tom's tricks from the very beginning, and if he hadn't cared too much about Loki, he might still have been able to guess Tom Riddle's language trap, but who told him that he couldn't get out of his mind when Loki was annoyed with his teasing. Lockhart was hesitant, he was worried that if he caused some serious disaster, wouldn't he be the sinner of the ages?
But Tom mentions one thing, "When the monsters start to get out of hand, you, the great Mr. Lockhart, can heroically stand up and surround all of Hogwarts, so that no one will suspect that you have unleashed the monsters." β
It seemed to Lockhart that it was perfect, and he was going to do what Tom Riddle had said, and the first thing they had to do was find the magical chamber.
Until now, Lockhart had never doubted the soul in the diary, not even when Tom Riddle taught him the Parseltongue.
The Parseltongue has always been a legend, only the true descendants of Slytherin return to this language, and there are many legends about the Parseltongue, one of which is that Salazar Slytherin's Parseltongue is a little bit of a fur learned by someone who is equivalent to a god in the wizarding world, and that person is Merlin, the legendary Merlin.
They all know that the legendary Merlin is an ancient dragon who can control zhì, he is the general existence of the dragons, he can greet their appearance at will, and let them use it for their own use, but this kind of dragon language is very difficult to learn, so Salazar, one of the four founders of Hogwarts, only learned a little bit of fur, and thus evolved into a parseltongue.
There's no record of what Parseltongue's language looks like, except that Lockhart had already sensed something, or rather a monster, when he stood in front of the entrance to the chamber and spoke hissing non-human language. He swallowed as he stood in front of the door of the chamber that had been opened, wondering if he was going to actually go in.
The words came to his diary, encouraging Lockhart to take a step forward.
"All right, Mr. Lockhart, think that you will be a hero to all, just like Harry Potter, the boy they praised for playing the Dark Lord."
Recently, the diary has learned a lot of news, such as his own body was defeated by a one-year-old baby, and disappeared without a trace, which is a shame for him, so in the depths of the young Tom Riddle's soul there is another name that he remembers in his heart, not because of love, but because of hate.
Loki, who was remembered, now has a partner, and that's Harry.
The Chamber of Secrets had to be opened to a long corridor, dark and eerie, and if it weren't for the constant encouragement of the diary in his hand, Gilderoy Lockhart might not have been able to walk this far, and he would have begun to retreat halfway through.
Now they were standing in front of the last door, Lockhart didn't know if he really wanted to go this far, now as long as he took this step, he had no chance of turning back, Lockhart's palms had already begun to appear, he looked at the ancient gate, if he recited the spell now, maybe the monster would be released completely......
"You don't have a choice, Mr. Lockhart."
"From the time you chose to get revenge on Rocky Odinson, from the time you showed up in Mr. Borgin's shop, you didn't have any choice."
If it weren't for his personal **, maybe he wouldn't have gotten to this point, at least Lockhart wouldn't have to face a choice. In fact, Lockhart's step had been taken a long time ago, from the moment he forcibly snatched the credit of others.
"Do you want everyone to know that the experiences in your books are someone else's business, and that you're just a predator?"
Tom Riddle no longer hides his true nature, and now he is sure that Lockhart will choose to be on his side, because he has caught Lockhart's handle, hasn't he?
Lockhart was threatened, and he was calculating in his heart, if he released the monster inside, Hogwarts would be able to find a way to escape even if it was an unwarranted disaster, even if he couldn't become a hero, if he didn't follow the meaning of the diary that he started threatening himself now, he would immediately make himself ruined and become the object of everyone's spit, and even be investigated by the Ministry of Magic, and then his jealousy of Loki and his desire to take revenge on him would definitely leak out.
Lockhart began to regret a little, the question now had become a matter of early or late death, he did not expect the diary to become what it is now, and learned to threaten him.
"If you're trying to throw me away or destroy me, all I can say is Mr. Lockhart, that's impossible, so if you want to be the one everyone admires, you have to do it my way."
Lockhart took a deep breath, he wanted to turn around, but as a person who eats fame as a meal, how could he let a diary that could not be broken corrupt it, the most important thing is that Lockhart thinks that since he can control that monster, can he let the monster create a mess in the school, and then he will come forward to destroy it?
How easy it would be.
"And don't you want to get revenge on Rocky Odinson? Can you tolerate a mudblood who doesn't know who our parents are standing on our heads and doing whatever they want? β
Mudblood, this word is a disguised insult, the so-called mudblood refers to Muggle-born wizards, some pure-blood families like to use the word Mudblood to insult Muggle wizards they don't like, even the Malfoy family has always supported pure-blood supremacy and the elimination of all Muggle wizards. However, when Lucius Malfoy chose to take a tentative step, the family said goodbye to the term, who told them to work with their partner, three of the four young wizards in the Restrid family, who belonged to the "mudbloods" who did not know their parents.
Lockhart thought that the word Mudblood was a bit excessive, but he really didn't want Loki to stand on top of him and dominate him, so anger prevailed over reason at this moment.
"On."
This was the spell that could be ordered to be opened by the people in the Chamber of Secrets, and Lockhart took out his wand, he already had a choice.
He didn't know that the soul in the diary was smiling, because he knew that Lockhart would definitely make such a choice, and that this person's self-esteem was higher than any other person's, even in the face of something that might be dangerous.
They then went through a complicated process to awaken the sleeping monster, a giant basilisk, and when they woke up the basilisk, Tom Riddle warned Lockhart not to look into the basilisk's eyes, because it only took one look at him to die quietly. The basilisk spat out the letter and moved around Lockhart, it had slept for so long that its stomach had become completely unfed.
"Sue it, it can go out hunting now, but be careful not to hurt people for the time being."
Lockhart closed his eyes and nodded vigorously, he probably learned the hissing Parseltongue to order the monster, Lockhart felt his hand touch something shiny and slippery, and he shivered, if I guessed it correctly, it was the scales of the basilisk. I don't know if it's because of the relationship between entering this secret room, Tom Riddle feels that his magic has increased a lot, and in the near future, he only needs to seize all of Lockhart's magic and his soul to be able to resurrect perfectly.
The basilisk had already left the room, Lockhart opened his eyes, he opened the journal tremblingly, his "servant" had given him a lot of advice, they needed to follow the basilisk behind, and by the way, create some horror in Hogwarts, for example, if they wanted to target Loki, it could confuse Hogwarts and make them think that the people who were attacked might be Muggle wizards.
But what no one expected was that the first victim to be a cat was a cat, their administrator, Mr. Filch's Lady Norris, the cat that all the students hated and liked to snitch, and it happened on the first day of the basilisk's house, which according to Lockhart's words should be a bad way to open the door.
Poor Lady Norris did not die, because he did not look directly into the eyes of the basilisk, but only saw the reflection of the basilisk in the whirlpool with such power, when Lady Noris was petrified, Lockhart was a little worried, his palms and forehead began to sweat profusely, he looked at the stiff lying there Lady Noris did not know what to do.
Because of the gradual increase in strength, Tom can already connect with Lockhart's mind, and Tom has given Lockhart a plan that can be implemented, just like they think, confusing Hogwarts and making them not know who their real purpose is.
"Is that really good?"
Lockhart hesitated, wouldn't he offend a lot of wizards by writing like this?
"Don't talk nonsense, unless you want to be found out you're here, Mr. Lockhart."
Tom became more deterrent, and his desire to control himself increased, and there was no way to prevent his font from being recognized, Lockhart began to use magic to control the brush in his hand and write this paragraph on the wall with blood, "Be an enemy of the heir, be vigilant!" You're the next target, Mudblood! β
Successor......
Lockhart's mind thought about what this word meant, and at this point the journal not only began to glow but also became hot, and it seemed that he wanted to get Lockhart's attention.
"We should go, someone will be coming soon."
Yes, they do need to go, it's easy to disturb all the professors with something like this, and Lockhart doesn't want to be caught red-handed here.
The person who found Mr. Filch's Lady Norris was Loki, and it was about dinner time just after I was Harry on the Quidditch pitch adjusting to flying at night, and it was said that if Quidditch lasted a long time, it was easy to play from morning to night, and he was worried about this situation, so he ran out to do a little practice.
Loki and Thor just wanted to go out for a walk, waiting for Harry, the one who had secretly trained them. Loki was a little curious about why the people in Gryffindor treated Harry so much, why did he do his best for Quidditch, and the protagonist was not only Harry alone, but Loki and them were at the center of the conflict.
Harry laughingly patted his brother on the head and said, "That's because we need to give our opponents the same respect, don't we?" β
Harry's words made Loki unable to find any major mistakes, Harry just wanted to respect himself and his opponent, but fortunately he sat on the spot and leaned on Thor's body to watch Harry slowly take off again.
After Harry's training was over, Harry went straight back to the Gryffindor common room, while Loki and Thor walked towards the underground common room of Slytherin together.
However, as they turned a corner, they saw Lady Noris falling in mid-air, and the two of them were surprised at first, and then Loki's expression narrowed down a little, and he nodded to Thor, thinking that this kind of thing needed to be notified to the professors.
Loki began to wonder if he should really be the first discoverer, and in many of the real cases of solving crimes that Lestrade has told, many of these first discoverers are likely to become the first wave of suspects.
Obviously, Thor's movements were too fast, and before Loki could make any plans, he had already called someone, and it was the head of Slytherin House who he dragged him...... Mr. Severus Snape. At that time, Thor just wanted to get back to Loki's side as soon as possible, so he saw a professor and used his brute force to drag someone over.
Poor Professor Snape taunted Thor no matter how much he said along the way, but for Thor who was sure to return to Loki, it was useless for Professor Snape to dry his throat.
"Professor."
Good, Snape knew there was going to be something going on with Loki. The reason why Snape didn't use magic on Thor was because he was worried that Thor was going to find some of his recent proud students, and if he left Thor in place, the question of what would happen to Loki would be a bit more than worth the loss.
Snape nodded at Loki's greeting, and as he pondered how to deduct points, he saw Loki motioning for him to look up at Lady Norris, who had fallen in mid-air.
Snape thought for a moment that Lady Norris was dead when he saw it, but judging by the stiffness and temperature of her body, Lady Noris was not dead and looked as if it was ...... petrified.
More professors and students arrived, and Mr. Filch looked at his poor Lady Norris and asked Dumbledore to punish Loki and Thor, believing that Loki and Thor must have turned their beloved Lady Norris into this.
Even Mr. Filch, who is a Squib, is crazy about killing Thor and Loki.
Dumbledore, dressed in pajamas, looked at the center of the farce, it was not clear what was going on now, they should look at it from a different perspective, if it was really Loki and Thor, the two of them actually had no time to act, and they were also innocent with Lady Norris.
But if not...... Who else could it be?
At this time, Lockhart appeared in everyone's sight with the lamp in his hand, and he also looked like a person who was about to rest, wearing very coquettish pajamas.
After seeing Mrs. Norris's condition, he took half a step back for a second, although he had done the previous qiΔ, but after changing the angle, he had another feeling, that is, fear.
He cleared his throat, and when everyone asked him what he thought about the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Lockhart retreated, saying that he had seen such cases before, and that there was a paragraph in his book that he needed to go back and read how he had handled it back then.
Lockhart was worried about what he would be exposed if he stayed, considering that the professors were old foxes, and he didn't believe he could fool the likes of Dumbledore, McGonagall, or even Professor Snape.
Lockhart, who left in a hurry, found a reason for himself to be upright, and he just went back to find a book to help by the way.
Now the professors were looking at Mrs. Norris and the writing on the wall, chattering about something, and most of the students were driven back to their dorms. It's late now, and even if you look it up, you can't find anything, and the insulting words on the wall and the heir completely confuse the vision, but it also proves that this is only the beginning.
The heir also has the Mudbloods, and if the first word can't be analyzed, the latter is an insulting name for many pure-bloods for Muggle-born little wizards, so it is certain that whoever is the devil is targeted, his or her target is those who are Muggle parents.
I'm glad they had a clear goal.
Thor and Loki were invited to the nearest office, and they had to tell the professors what they had just seen, and it was now certain that Lady Noris was not dead, but was simply petrified.
Mr. Filch was furious that his cat was being harmed, he didn't remember that Loki was a Slytherin, he only knew that they were suspected of hurting his own Lady Norris.
Mr. Filch even asked for a flashback spell to confirm what the last spell used by Loki and Thor's wand was, those words were written through guΓ² magic, and they looked square and did not have any soft feeling, but Dumbledore did not agree to Mr. Filch's suggestion, in his opinion, this matter should not have been done by Thor and Loki, otherwise they would not be able to stand here so justifiably.
"Did you find anything else?"
It was the first time Dumbledore had looked at Loki so closely, he didn't look much different from an ordinary wizard, just a little more delicate and beautiful, and his eyes were very bright. Dumbledore looked directly at Loki's bright eyes, Loki did give people a sense of evil, his smile did not penetrate into his eyes, as if he was ready to play a prank at any time, but Dumbledore did not see any excessive pursuit of fame and fortune in Loki's eyes, unless he was hiding it too well.
"No, Professor, we just saw Lady Norris hanging upside down there."
Thor replied obediently.
Harry, meanwhile, didn't know what was going on with Loki and Thor, and he heard some strange noises, which seemed to be right in his ears.
"Hungry...... I'm so hungry, I need food. β
Harry rolled over, his roommates with normal expressions, it seemed like he was the only one who heard the voice, it was ...... Why?